The Proposition

1998

Action / Drama / Romance

10
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 49% · 9 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 49% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.2/10 10 2484 2.5K

parish sterility priest miscarriage woman director

Plot summary

Father Michael McKinnon goes from the UK to Boston circa 1935. For unknown reasons, he avoids at all costs the most prominent parishioners, Arthur and Eleanor Barret. Meanwhile Eleanor and Arthur desperately want to have a child, but Arthur is sterile, so they hire Harvard law student Roger Martin to impregnate Eleanor, but unfortunately Roger falls in love with her.

Director

Lesli Linka Glatter Photo
Lesli Linka Glatter

Top cast

Kenneth Branagh Photo
Kenneth Branagh as Father Michael McKinnon
William Hurt Photo
William Hurt as Arthur Barret
Larry Bull Photo
Larry Bull as Butler Captain
Blythe Danner Photo
Blythe Danner as Syril Danning
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1 GB
1280*694
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 51 min
Seeds 3
2.06 GB
1920*1040
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 51 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by MatthewJP 6 / 10

Entertaining, nicely filmed, inaccurate.

Kenneth Branagh, as expected, performed very well. What was difficult to absorb as "possible" were the Catholic religious elements depicted. They were wrong and inaccurate. For example, the Mass vestments were not correct. The conversations and characterizations of the pastor and the young priest, for that period of time (Boston in the late 30s, early 40s) were off key, to say the least. The plot was interesting, but the film was too long, and there was too much "symbolism", and the "next move" was always predictable. With such a fine cast, and a great story, the producers and the directors should have taken time to be more accurate and correct about details. Another example of the lack of care was the scene where the young priest is seen administering "Anointing of the Sick" [formerly called "Extreme Unction"] to a corpse about to be buried. This never happens and is actually forbidden in the RC Church. Dead people cannot receive "sacraments." Attention must be paid. Details, details, details. The truth is in the details. However, I did enjoy it. I think most people would find this film interesting and entertaining.
Reviewed by afterdarkpak 7 / 10

men cant resist the stunning madelen stowe in 90s.

A good movie with really good performance by all lead characters, madelain stowe is stunning woman of 90s.Apart from misusing / making fun of the religion movie is ok .why? A church going n devote woman and wife of wealthy man , but husband shooting blanks. so they hire another guy to impregnate her with old fashion way ? come on.-------------spoiler----------even after that wife fall in love with that priest, she went for another guy to conceive a child ? ahh come on. that part was really bad in the movie.
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